Peter Mayle Quotes
In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I think Vikings have always been popular, haven't they? I remember being a kid and being in second grade reading a book about this Viking warrior.
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There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
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For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.
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My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.
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In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.
